In terms of writer, the major dialogs which are not completely converted are the frame and “table of contents” ones which are only partially converted, while there’s no conversion of any of the hyperlink dialog pages yet. While the paragraph and character dialogs are now fully converted over.

My WAC700′s hard drive died a while ago, and my efforts to find a disk image I could use to clone a replacement didn’t pan out, leaving me with three useless WAS700 stations which I wanted to reuse as generic stations playing back from a software ps3mediaserver solution. But the blasted stations were configured to use some now long-dead wifi configuration I wasn’t using anymore and they need the station in order to be reconfigured to use a new wiki config.

On the other hand the source for the WAC700 is available from philips, so with a bit of digging it turns out the WEP key for the WAS700 ad-hoc installation mode network WASC700-INST is PHILIPS123XYZ and not Philips123ABC or PhilipsABC123

With the right key, then the WAC700 emulator works wonderfully to reconfigure the stations, and then they can easily find and playback from the ps3mediaserver via auxillary input->select server.

We’ve now reached 200 dialogs and tabpages converted from LibreOffice’s classic fixed widget size and position .src format to the GtkBuilder .ui format. These are still our own widgets, we just reuse the file format and map the Gtk widgets to our own equivalents. I’ve now finally refreshed the original sample screen shots to reflect the current reality.

I estimate we require an additional 200 to 400 .ui files, unless a lot of the existing .src dialogs turn out to be orphaned dialog descriptions that are not in use. (This is unlikely)

Additionally, there’s a short list of selected dialogs awaiting review for any HIG compliance issues or general layout improvements. We have a python script as ./bin/lint-ui.py (thanks leighman) to check for basic compliance with guidelines, but there’s room for improvement, e.g. checking that widgets have mnemonic widgets, etc.

Linux LibreOffice 4.1.0 will now support opentype localized forms. Here’s a screenshot of the Linux Libertine O font applied to the same text on each line. One line’s language set to Serbian, the other to Russian. The language of the text gets propagated down correctly to the underlying text layout engine to allow the correct localized Serbian forms to be rendered.

We’ve now reached 100 dialogs and tabpages converted from LibreOffice’s classic fixed widget size and position .src format to the GtkBuilder .ui editable by glade format. I won’t repeat the full reasons for the conversion, but I’m particularly happy with the new accessibility support, both for the new containers and the .ui loaded.

The a11y stuff can now generally be describable in the .ui file rather than sporadic hard-coded calls here and there. And with the new mnemonic widget for label support, setting in the .ui explicitly what a label is a label for overrides the (eventually to be removed) ugly guessing short-cut code in vcl and sets the default a11y relationship between the label and labelee.

So setting mnemonic widgets in LibreOffice .ui files is now strongly indicated.

Here’s a hopefully helpful step-by-step tutorial for converting a simple dialog from .src to .ui

Output of sloccount on the fedora libreoffice pre-build unpacked libreoffice, i.e. basically the sloccount of libreoffice minus the external modules otherwise normally found in the cross-distro build like libxml2/mozilla/libwpd/etc. So it’s a lower-bound count of libreoffice. Summary comes to 5,167,387 lines.

Just noticed that a random fairly lowlevel-dependency-affecting commit caused four LibreOffice tinderbox buildbots to kick off at the same time. Shorter green bars the faster, so as the Olympics has begun, the gold goes to Norbert’s MacOSX Intel box, silver goes to Norbert’s Gentoo box, bronze goes to my Fedora box… but drug test proves that its an incremental build, not a true from-scratch build, so embarrassing disqualification awards the bronze to Lubos’s OpenSUSE-clang box.